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Re: [RC] [RC] [RC] Q3. Logbooks - Jay RandleHi DotThank you for your email. I don't know how your Novice system of rides works, but I'll give you a run-down of how ours works, and hopefully that will answer your question. RIDERS A Novice rider is a rider who has just started in the sport. Every Novice rider must successfully complete 2 x 40km (25mile) rides at a restricted pace (no faster than 14kph). Once this requirement is met, a Novice rider can then progress to 80km and 120km rides, but they must successfully complete a minimum of 240km (3 x 80km rides) at a restricted pace (no faster than 14kph). After they have completed 3 x 80km rides, the rider is then a qualified Endurance or Open rider. At this point, the rider is able to compete in any ride of 80km or longer at any pace they wish (one would hope the pace depends upon the horse's fitness, level of experience, etc). HORSES A Novice horse is a horse that has just started in the sport. Every Novice horse must successfully complete 3 x 80km rides at a restricted pace (no faster than 14kph, or approximately 6 hours). From the date of the completion of the 1st 80km ride, the Novice horse is not allowed to compete in more than 4 x 80km rides within a 90 day period. So, if your Novice horse's first ride of the season was 1 March, and he successfully completed this ride, between 1 March and 29 May he could only then enter another 3 x 80km rides. Hopefully he would complete 2 of them, and become a qualified Endurance horse. If this happens, the horse's logbook is upgraded to a "yellow" or Endurance logbook. Although there are many horses that do complete 3 or 4 x 80km rides within 90 days, there are many who take much longer than the 90 days. The Endurance horse logbook cannot be issued within that initial 90 day period, however. This is to protect younger or less experienced horses from over-riding. In addition, if your horse is having consistent problems with completing rides successfully, you are not allowed to enter a Novice horse in more than 4 x 80km rides in ANY 90 day period. This allows the horse time to recover between unfortunate incidences! Once a horse is an Open or Endurance horse, it is then allowed to enter any length of ride and compete at any pace. Obviously, a horse in its first season of competition should be taken slowly and carefully, and sometimes this doesn't happen.... hence all the rules and penalties! HORSES AND RIDERS Any rider and any horse is able to enter 40km training rides, but ALL entries are restricted to the maximum speed of 14kph. It doesn't matter if it's an Open rider on an Open horse, they still must do no faster than 14kph. This is approximately 3 hours for 40km (25miles). Training Rides are considered to be an avenue for training your horse, and are non-competitive and time restricted. At the beginning of our competition season here in Queensland there are a number of rides that offer only Training rides... in order to 'gear up' your horse for the season. These are also valuable for newcomers to the sport, as every new rider must complete 2 x 40km Training Rides. This means that there are often Novice riders on Open horses. So, in answer to your question, a horse's logbook will often have a mixture of 80km and 40km rides in it, depending upon the rider, the stage of conditioning the horse is at for the season, and the location/terrain of the ride. This is not looked at askance by any Vet, as it is a normal state of affairs. Hope this explains....... Best regards Jay Randle SPLENDACREST ENDURANCE TRAINING www.freewebs.com/splendacrest From: "Dot Wiggins" <dotwgns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Jay Randle" <splendacrest@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [RC] [RC] Q3. Logbooks Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:13:25 -0700 I have a question for you. How do you handle riders that choose to change distances during a season? For instance, do a "novice" distance at one ride and then a full distance next month, and a "novice" a month later? I'm assuming both horse and rider have long since done all the qualifying rides required. Many of us do this, depending on conditioning, work schedules, health, and other "real life" issues. Is this allowed? Just curious, wondering how this flies in the log book entries. Would a vet or other authority be inclined to suspect such a horse as being unable to compete at longer rides safely? _________________________________________________________________ Advertisement: 50% off on Xbox 360, PS and Nintendo Wii titles! http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-4lab-71-bn-49-en-84-k-40-extended.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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